Chocolate Baptism Favours

07Jul

Today I spent the day creating favours for my niece’s Baptism next week. I started a tradition when I made them for my boys’ Baptisms, and then my friends’ children’s Baptisms, so of course I had to make them for my little Goddaughter-to-be, Aria, as well.

I started with lots of packets of Furry Friends Chocolates. Sadly they are now wrapped in plastic. 😦

You need to make it neat and tidy as it affects the overall look of the final product.

It took quite a while to get through all fifty.

Next I had to print out the personalised paper wrappers…a second time, as I’d cut and pasted someone else’s Bible verse onto the wrapper and they hadn’t used captialised pronouns for God. Tut, tut. So I had to correct them and reprint.

Then cut them all out.

Once that was done, I glued all the new wrappers onto the chocolates.

It was getting dark by the time I had them all done.

I packed them into a dish and photographed my completed work to send to my sister. I was very pleased to have them finished.

On the back of the chocolates I’ve put all Aria’s special details, a Bible verse (yes this was the unedited version) and Ethan created a QR scan for the chocolate (when you scan it it thanks the chocolate holder for sharing Aria’s special day).

To my horror, once all fifty were finished, I noticed an error! Yes an error! How I could sit and wrap fifty of these things and not notice, I don’t know. I must have been too engrossed in the sermon I was listening to.

The cover is ‘supposed’ to have the message – God Bless Aria on Her Baptism Day – on the front.

No I can’t leave them as is. I have to start again. I’m a bit particular about details and getting special things just right.

Phooey!!!

I’ve already reprinted all the papers and have started cutting them out.

Tomorrow I’ll face this task again. Hopefully I can get it right this time. Sigh.

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I am a homeschooling mother of two boys, aged 14 and 12 years. We live in Australia and have never sent our children to school...except to visit with their Daddy, my Dh. He is a school teacher (as I was too, a long time ago).

"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices." ~Horace Mann